www.facebook.com/ SDVoiceandViewpoint
Years
Vol. 65 No. 24 | Thursday, June 12, 2025
www.sdvoice.info
Serving San Diego County’s African & African American Communities 65 Years
Remember Juneteenth and INSIDE THIS WEEK'S ISSUE: Why We Celebrate SUMMER MEAL GUIDE SEE PAGES 7-8
The Cooper Family Foundation’s 2022 Juneteenth celebration on Saturday, June 18, 2022 at Memorial Park in San Diego. Inset photo of Juneteenth flag raised for the first time at the County Administration Center on June 17, 2022. PHOTOS: Mike Norris
By Dr. John E. Warren PUBLISHER News of the Emancipation proclamation signed by President Lincoln, freeing the slaves, took two and a half years to reach Texas. History reflects that by the time General Gordon Granger arrived in
Texas with the announcement on June 19, 1865, President Lincoln was dead, the Confederate Capitol at Richmond had fallen and the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery had passed the Congress. See JUNETEENTH page 2
Black Cities Targeted Again?
Trump’s Federal Playbook Expands By Stacy M. Brown BLACK PRESS USA SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT As National Guard troops flood into Los Angeles at President Donald Trump’s command—without the consent of California’s governor—Black communities across the United States are seeing history repeat itself. The aggressive federal response mirrors what unfolded in Washington, D.C. in 2020, when Trump deployed federal forces to crush protests for George Floyd, resulting in the teargassing of peaceful demonstrators outside
METRO COMMUNITY MINISTRIES HOSTS DOMINOES TOURNAMENT SEE PAGE 10
Council Fights for
Targeted Budget
Restorations, Passed to Mayor's Desk for Approval
Now, with immigration raids sparking protest in majority-Black and Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles like Compton and Paramount, Trump has again used federal troops to confront civilians. PHOTO: Courtesy of NNPA.
the White House. Now, with immigration raids sparking protest in majority-Black and Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles like Compton and Paramount, Trump has again used federal troops to confront civilians. For Black communities in Atlanta, Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, and other cities where resistance often rises from the streets, the latest crackdown in Los Angeles is not just another news story—it’s a clear and dangerous signal. See TRUMP page 2
By Macy Meinhardt V&V STAFF WRITER, CA LOCAL NEWS FELLOW
Conference ahead of the critical budget vote outside City Hall on June 10, 2025. PHOTO: Macy Meinhardt/ Voice & Viewpoint Staff
As a season of painful budget negotiations, offset by nationwide economic volatility, failed tax measures, and declining revenue, comes to an end, the final budget passed 7-2 by San Diego City Council includes bold restorations to library services and recreation center hours. Now, it heads to the Mayor’s desk, where it is subjected to final See BUDGET page 2 approval or a veto.
POLITICAL PLAYBACK: CALIFORNIA CAPITOL NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED By Bo Tefu CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA
Vice President Kamala Harris receives an honorary diploma from Compton School Board President Micah Ali during Compton High School’s graduation ceremony. PHOTO: Dennis J. Freeman, News4USOnline; Courtesy of CBM
Kamala Harris Surprises Compton High Grads at 2025 Ceremony Former Vice President Kamala Harris made
a surprise appearance at Compton High School’s graduation on June 5, joining more than 300 seniors and their families in a celebration held at the school’s new football stadium. See PLAYBACK page 5
HARVARD REACHES HISTORIC SETTLEMENT OVER EARLIEST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHS OF ENSLAVED AMERICANS By Stacy M. Brown BLACK PRESS USA SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
Left: Susanna Moore, left, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz, celebrates with Tamara Lanier, second right, and attorneys Ben Crump and Josh Koskoff at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf hotel on Wednesday, May 28, 2025 in Boston, Mass. PHOTO: /Leah Willingham/AP; Right: PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain
Harvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people as part of a historic legal settlement announced Wednesday [May 28] by nationally renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump. The agreement resolves a 2019 lawsuit filed by Tamara Lanier, the great-great-great-granddaughter of an enslaved man known as “Papa Renty,” whose image, along with that of his daughter Delia and five others, was captured in 1850 to support racist scientific theories promoted by a Harvard professor. See HARVARD page 5
www.sdvoice.info